Chinese export bowl of high fired porcelain, polychrome decoration under glaze. Thin walled in nearly hemispherical form sitting on a 3/4" raised foot. Gold-painted rim with red edging. Two goldfish inside bottom. Continuous landscape on exterior is the same repeating Roman or Greek scene of a seated half-robed seated man with dog facing three nude women and seated baby. All set against distant mountains and one tree in foreground.
Child wearing a bib with hand-stitching on it. Written on back: "For Miss Griest, taken when Chi-Ying Tang was 9 months old. January 19, 1926, Peking".
Provenance
Photographs from MG-129 The Rebecca W. Greist Collection